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Ø ISLAND is composed of several landscapes within a single landscape. They are territories lived and shaped by interior and exterior time. There are no privatized territories on this island. They are landscapes that cannot be accommodated: expanded through encounters, clashes, pressures and frictions. Between silence and intimacy, new islands are sculpted, in a possible encounter between life and death.
script and direction
Cláudia Varejão e Joana Castro
with
Elizabete Francisca, Renata Portas, Tita Maravilha
photography and movement
Cláudia Varejão, Joana Castro
sound
Adriana Bolito
editing
Cláudia Varejão, Joana Castro
sound mixing
Elsa Ferreira
sound studio
Loudness Films
commissioned by
Teatro Municipal do Porto
duration
11 min.
M/16
Cláudia Varejão (Oporto, 1980) studied cinematography and photography. Her first feature-length film, Ama-San, a documentary about Japanese pearl divers, won dozens of awards throughout the world. Her most recent film, Lobo e Cão, was first screened at the 79th Venice Film Festival, where it won the Giornate Degli Autori Award. Her work, whether in cinema or photography, documentary or fiction, is closely bound with the people portrayed.
Joana Castro (Oporto, 1988) is a non-binary artist who develops projects that cross dance with performance, voice and sound. She has presented her work in Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany and Brazil. Apart from issues such as death, mourning, destruction, failure and rituals of endings that pervade her private life and invade her creative work, gender questions also run through her creative world.